7 Best Clinical Trials Courses on edX
We compared 7 Clinical Trials courses currently listed on edX, priced from $99.00 to $249.00. 4 come from a named university or institution, including Davidson College, Stanford University and University of Toronto. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.
- Courses compared
- 7
- Price range
- $99.00 – $249.00
- Providers
- edX
- Last updated
- 18 Sep 2026
How these 7 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from edX, matched to "clinical trials" by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.
The grade on each entry scores how much the provider publishes about the course before you pay — the length and detail of the description, whether it lists learning outcomes and objectives — and whether a named university or institution stands behind it. A is fully documented and institution-backed; E is little more than a title and a price. Courses with almost nothing published are left ungraded rather than marked down, because an unknown course and a poor one are not the same thing.
There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $99.00 to $249.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Innovate & Regulate: Drug Research, Costs, Clinical Trials & Approval
Offered by Davidson College
At some point in their life, essentially everyone needs to use medication for some type of disease treatment or cure. While medications offer great benefits, the cost of drugs, especially new drugs, and the lack of treat...
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Thinking Critically: Interpreting Randomized Clinical Trials
Offered by Stanford University
Enhance your research skills with this course on critically evaluating clinical studies. Learn key research methodology principles, including randomization and blinding, to improve clinical practice, research quality, an...
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Lead Discovery & Optimization for Efficacy, PK, & Safety
Offered by Davidson College
Understanding the efficacy, potency, pharmacokinetics, and safety of compounds is important, but compounds almost always require improvement in their properties in order to become drugs. The process of improvement is cal...
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Preclinical Safety: From In Vitro Assays to Human Dose Predictions
Offered by Davidson College
Drugs are approved based on their “safety and efficacy”. Determining the safety of a drug occurs through studies that are largely completely separate from efficacy studies. The safety studies fall under the umbrella of p...
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Originator and Biosimilar Biologics: For Patients and Healthcare Providers
Offered by University of Toronto
This course offers an insightful look into originator and biosimilar biologics, focusing on their implications for patients and healthcare providers. You'll explore the fundamental concepts of biological medicines, gain...
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Thinking Critically Series: Interpreting Screening Trials
Offered by Stanford University
Improve your ability to critically evaluate clinical research papers with this CME/CE course from Stanford University. Learn research methodology principles, analyze screening study designs, and enhance your skills in ev...
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CERTaIN: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research
Offered by The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston
Learn what comparative effectiveness research (CER) and patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) are and identify the difference between CER/PCOR studies and randomized controlled trials.
$249.00listed price
Best Clinical Trials Courses on edX compared
| # | Course | Provider | Offered by | Price | |
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| 1 | Innovate & Regulate: Drug Research, Costs, Clinical Trials & Approval | edX | Davidson College | $99.00 | View → |
| 2 | Thinking Critically: Interpreting Randomized Clinical Trials | edX | Stanford University | — | View → |
| 3 | Lead Discovery & Optimization for Efficacy, PK, & Safety | edX | Davidson College | $99.00 | View → |
| 4 | Preclinical Safety: From In Vitro Assays to Human Dose Predictions | edX | Davidson College | $99.00 | View → |
| 5 | Originator and Biosimilar Biologics: For Patients and Healthcare Provi... | edX | University of Toronto | $133.20 | View → |
| 6 | Thinking Critically Series: Interpreting Screening Trials | edX | Stanford University | — | View → |
| 7 | CERTaIN: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research | edX | The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston | $249.00 | View → |
Prices shown are the provider's listed price when we last updated this page. Confirm on their site before enrolling.
What the prices here tell you
The 5 priced courses on this page run from $99.00 to $249.00, with the middle of the range around $99.00 — a spread of $150.00. That is a wide gap for one subject. A higher price on this page usually reflects who is behind the course rather than how much material it contains, so it is worth opening two or three at different price points and comparing their syllabus before deciding.
Who is behind these courses
These courses come from edX. Everything on this page is sold on the one platform, so the buying experience is the same whichever you pick. 4 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including Davidson College, Stanford University and University of Toronto — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
Before you enrol
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